http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2093-2189766,00.html 今日 Sunday Times 的文章，主角是即将离开我们的 Larsson。 也有提到一点巴萨从没落到冠军的经过。 文中有几段蛮有意思的： [excerpts] Only at the final whistle did the 34-year-old Swede fail to second-guess his colleagues’ movements. He leapt over an advertising hoarding, through a thick trench of photographers to the end of the stadium occupied by Barcelona supporters. He raised his fists, pointed at them — “This one’s for you” — and waited. And waited. And then felt terribly alone on the running track around the playing surface at the Stade de France. “I assumed they’d all come after me, and I realised too late that the rest of the players were celebrating in the middle of the pitch.” Larsson 在主裁吹响比赛结束的哨声後，是全队唯一在第一时间跑到 巴萨球迷加油区，向球迷致意的球员。在发现没有队友跟上来之後， 他才有点惊讶和尴尬的跑回场中央和队友一起狂欢。 Yet his name always drew a raucous cheer, and his replica No 7 shirts were, until the emergence of Lionel Messi, selling more than those of any other Barça players except Ronaldinho and Eto’o. Larsson 的球衣在 Nou Camp 的销量仅次於 Ronaldinho, Eto'o 和 Messi。 Ask Liverpool how they remember the 2005 turnaround, and the names Smicer and Hamann quickly crop up. In 1999 it was Manchester United’s Sheringham and Solskjaer. Real Madrid triumphed in the 2002 final thanks to a substitute goalkeeper, Iker Casillas. Porto had a man coming off the bench, Dmitri Alenitchev, to thank in 2004. 这里提到了在欧冠决赛上关键替补们的表现。今年的 Larsson 当然也是其中之一。 Rijkaard’s first clasico ended in Barça’s first home league defeat against Real Madrid for 20 years. He awoke the next morning to a one-word headline: “Coward.” 这里写到，当 Rijkaard 执教巴萨第一年的首场德比输给皇马之後， 隔天早上，他打开报纸看到头条只写了一个字：懦夫。 It might have been otherwise. Barça president Joan Laporta had swaggeringly announced that Larsson, when he ruptured his cruciate ligament in November 2004, would be offered a further year on his contract, taking him to 2007. The deal was never signed. The expectation was that Henry had a better than 50-50 chance of coming to Barcelona in Larsson’s place, straight into the first XI. Instead, he will be playing at Ashburton Grove. Naturally, Larsson’s first match at Helsingborgs, a club with an average attendance of about 10,000, is sold out. Laporta 当年在 Larsson 受伤之後，曾宣布要和他多续约一年到 2007 年，但後来并没有完成续约的动作。当时预期 Henry 有超过 50% 的可能加入，可能是没有将合约延长一年最重要的原因。如今 ，Larsson 将回到故乡加入他九零年代初期效力的 Helsingborgs， 而他的首场回归赛，将近万人的球场将会高朋满座。 建议有空的人不妨看看全文。 --

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